Lessons from COVID-19 for Building a Better Future through Sustainable Livestock

17-18 September 2020. From Crisis to Action – Lessons from COVID-19 for Building a Better Future through Sustainable Livestock. Link for Thursday meeting + link for Friday meeting

Regional Meetings: 31 August to 15 September 2020
Global Meeting: 14 to 18 September 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global issue, with crucial short and long-term consequences, and the livestock sector must play its role in contributing to more sustainable, healthy future food systems. All livestock stakeholders have a role to play in articulating COVID's impacts on the sector and ensuring sustainable livestock fully contribute to building forward on all development aspects. With a multi-stakeholder approach, the meeting will identify COVID-19's impacts and strategize stakeholder responses worldwide to build forward a more sustainable future from the livestock sector. 

Global objectives

• Facilitate a global discussion among GASL stakeholders and the wider development community to assess the diversity of opportunities and challenges derived from the COVID-19 pandemic across different regions of the world
• Strategize how the livestock sector can respond towards more sustainable food systems, an enhanced One Health approach and stronger food security outcomes
• Prepare inputs for the June 2021 GASL MSP Meeting in Delémont, Switzerland, and for the 2021 Food Systems Summit

Regional objectives

• Present regional impacts of COVID-19 and assess drivers of change, consequences and stakeholder responses to the challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the four sustainability domains of food and nutrition security, livelihoods and economic growth, animal health and animal welfare and climate and resource use.
• Identify options in the short, medium and long run, on how the livestock sector is could improve its response through a sustainable livestock approach with solutions of multi-stakeholder nature.

GASL Regional Preparatory Meetings

2-3 September 2020 Africa 1 (English)

• Animal health and animal welfare perspective
• Impacts of COVID-19 on food and nutrition security
• COVID 19- Challenges and opportunities on livestock for Africa
• The livestock sector, the pandemic, climate change and natural resource use in sub-Saharan Africa

8, 9, 10 September 2020 Africa 2 (French)

• Réseau de Communication pour le Pastoralsme